assigning user buttons

[Jim White]

As the weather has been getting colder, I have been starting to prefer user buttons over white boxes because I don't need to take my gloves off to use them. However, the things I want to assign are not available. I think every user has their own preferences as to what the buttons should be. Rather than try to update the settings page to cover all options, can it be set up so whatever screen is currently being viewed is assigned to a user button by a long push? (that is is how I set the tuning buttons on my trucks radio)

Otherwise, I would like to be able to access "RTK engine status", "point number", and "point description" from the user buttons. (Antenna height is already available) It is sort of a nuisance to use the arrow keys to select the values, but better than numb fingers.

 

[Clay Davidson]

A quick fix would be to where a stylus around your neck. Then you don't have to take your gloves off and you can touch the screen.

 

[Nate The Surveyor]

If you decide to use a stylus, I've found that nite-ize brand works well. Here is an eBay link, fyi https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/233448785091

 

[Jim White]

Thanks for the stylus ideas. I have been lost so many over the years that I gave up carrying them. About a 100 years ago some genius at a local university convinced some local farmers that rose bush hedges made the perfect fence. The hedges are now about 30-40 feet wide buffers around the stonewalls, and nothing short of a brush hog will touch them. When you work your way through them, anything loose on your body (hats, gloves, ears, noses, stylus strings) will be left dangeling in the thorns. I have to really be careful to protect the soft rubber parts of the LS. Future surveyors will be able the follow my footsteps, as well as the assortment of stylus, I have left behind.

But still, it would be great to have a more flexible way to program the user buttons...

 

[Mike Lacey]

We use the same stylus as Nate, and they work really good. We clip it on the Triumph and they stay put, haven't lost to many of them.

 

[Javad]

We had the idea of holding the white buttons and assigning to the current screen, but the danger was that we should now from what screen we came to the current one, for the "back" button and for other issues.
For now we will make all the top and bottom hardware buttons (except the ON/OFF, total of 19 hardware buttons) configurable, similar to the white buttons.
We start by the buttons that Jim wanted and some that we think, and wait for your suggestions as which buttons you want.